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by stuarthalloway 4547 days ago
"The only way to have such a versioned history is ..." is incorrect, and trivially so.

Datomic provides one existence proof of this: Datomic's history data is kept in distinct data structures, so it is "pay as you go" -- querying history is more expensive, because there is more stuff. Querying the present is cheaper.

Datomic queries are datalog, and do not require writing map/reduce jobs.